Deaths in Music in 1778

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  • Feb 15 Johann Gottlieb Gorner, German composer, dies at 80
  • Mar 5 Thomas Arne, British composer (Rule Britannia, A-Hunting We Will Go), dies at 67
  • Apr 7 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
  • Jun 7 Johann Georg Zechner, Austrian composer, dies at 62
  • Jun 26 Angelo Antonio Caroli, Italian composer, dies at 77
  • Jul 2 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, eminent political theorist, and writer whose influential works inspired French Revolution leaders and Romantic academics (Confession), dies of cerebral bleeding from a stroke at 66
  • Jul 28 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
  • Aug 5 Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician "English Mozart", dies at 22
  • Nov 26 Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68